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Oikophobia...

Oikophobia...

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...do you have any?


@FMF

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

-- FDR


The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia. As xenophobia means the fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners, so oikophobia means the fear or hatred of home or one’s own society or civilization, oikos being the ancient Greek word for home, house, household. The term was coined in this sense by British philosopher Roger Scruton in 2004, in his book England and the Need for Nations. He calls oikophobia “the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably ‘ours.’”

https://quillette.com/2019/10/07/oikophobia-our-western-self-hatred/

Then, (at 18 mins) have you heard of the term oikophobia? Dr Benedict Beckeld says that 'almost everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of people who blame their own country or civilization for everything, who feel embarrassed about their own culture. There is a word for this: “oikophobia,” fear of home, the opposite of xenophobia, fear of foreigners'. He says that it happens when a culture is in decline and that 'oikophobia is a phenomenon of mass psychology and human nature—both of which do not, and cannot, change'. He takes us through the history of oikophobia, from Ancient Greece to now and says that 'as a general matter, when a civilization progresses and grows more successful, there is enough wealth and power for people to focus more on competing against their peers than preserving the health of their communities. Diverse interests arise, leading citizens to view one another as threats greater than those posed by foreign enemies.... Its result is a nation so fixated on internal squabbles that it is no longer capable of effectively projecting outward as a unified force'.

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/counterpoint/18-04-22-v2/13839380


@fmf said
...do you have any?
A better question is, do you suffer from aibohphobia?

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@shallow-blue said
A better question is, do you suffer from aibohphobia?
Non madam.


@fmf said
...do you have any?
No I don't but we have plenty of self loathing white people who do it to virtue signal.


@chessataxia said
No I don't but we have plenty of self loathing white people who do it to virtue signal.
You start with "no" but then what you say sounds a bit oikophobic, though

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@FMF

Learn to read.

No I don't was my answer.

Then I told you we have plenty of white people who are. I am not responsible or associated with virtue signaling white pansies.

Ya retard.

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@fmf said
...do you have any?
I think you created this thread in the hopes of finding like minded self loathers.
Where you live doesn't have a tall building?


@chessataxia said
.Then I told you we have plenty of white people who are. I am not responsible or associated with virtue signaling white pansies.
This disapproval of people in your own culture sounds oikophobic.


@chessataxia said
I think you created this thread in the hopes of finding like minded self loathers.
I am not self-loathing

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@chessataxia said
@FMF

Learn to read.

No I don't was my answer.

Then I told you we have plenty of white people who are. I am not responsible or associated with virtue signaling white pansies.

Ya retard.
So, are you now working on your second dozen RHP personas?

Contenchess, was it last?

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@fmf said
...do you have any?
No. My country and culture is no better or worse than the rest.